HALDEMAN, MRS SA MSS.

Career of Mrs. Haldeman: born June 5, 1854 at Cedarville,
Illinois, daughter of John Huy and Sarah (Weber) Addams; Oct. 25,
1875, married Henry Winfield Haldeman, 1848-1905, physician and
banker; June 18, 1887, daughter Anna Marcet, born; 1890's
president of the Girard (Kansas) Board of education; 1890's and
1900's active in church work and women's clubs; Jan. 21, 1899,
elected first president of the Girard public library association;
on death of husband in 1905 succeeded him as president of the
State bank of Girard; 1914, elected as vice-president for the
third district of the Kansas state bankers association; died Mar.
19, 1915 at Augustana hospital, Chicago, and buried at
Cedarville, Iowa.

Career of Mrs. Anna Marcet (Haldeman) Haldeman-Julius: born,
Girard, Kansas, June 18, 1887; studied at Rockford seminary,
Rockford, Ill., 1902-1903, at Dearborn seminary, Chicago, Ill.,
1904-1905, at Bryn Mawr college, 1905-1908, and at the American
academy of dramatic arts, New York, 1908- 1910; 1910-1913, acted
in stock companies in the U.S. and Canada under the name of Jean
Marcet; 1915-1925, vice- president, State bank of Girard, Kansas;
1915-1917, officer of Kansas state bankers association; June 1,
1916, maried Emanuel Julius, 1889-1951, editor, who changed his
name to Haldeman-Julius; several books of hers published,
1916-1931; 1931, travelled in Russia and collected funds due her
and her husband from sale of translations of their books; died,
Feb. 13, 1941.

The first box in the collection contains a folder of
biographical and genealogical material on the family.

The bulk of the material in the collection is family
correspondence, primarily letters to Mrs. Haldeman, from her
daughter, Anna Marcet Haldeman, while a student at Rockford
seminary, Dearborn seminary, Bryn Mawr college, and the American
academy of dramatic arts; on a trip to Europe in the summer of
1908; and as an actress; and letters, 1870-1915, to Mrs. Haldeman
from her sister, Jane Addams, 1860-1935, director of Hull House,
Chicago, Ill. Included are papers, 1885-1913, relating to church
work and the women's federation of clubs in Kansas; some
correspondence and papers of Martha Addams, and a sister of Mrs.
Haldeman and Jane Addams who died at the age of 16; and some
correspondence and papers, 1839-1888, of the Weber family of
which Mrs. Sarah (Weber) Addams, mother of Mrs. Haldeman and
Jane, was a member.

The material after the death of Mrs. Haldeman consists
primarily of letters, 1916-1925, from Jane Addams to her niece,
Mrs. Anna Marcet (Haldeman) Haldeman-Julius, correspondence of
Mrs. Anna Marcet (Haldeman) Haldeman-Julius as secretary of the
Kansas state bankers association, 1915- 1917; letters pertaining
to her trip to Russia in 1931; 1918 correspondence of her
husband, Emanuel Haldeman-Julius in his effort to keep out of the
service in World War I; and correspondence with her children,
Alice and Henry.

Included in the collection are undated typewritten mss. of Sir
Richard Burton's "The sotadic zone, edited by A. F. Niemoeller";
Hereward Carrington's "Electricity and life: physics and
gravitation"; Jules Guyot's "Breviary of experimental love,
translated by A. F. Niemoeller"; Joseph McCabe's "Baron d'Holbach
and his age," "Judged," and "The sentimental religion of
Rousseau"; Clinton A. Sanders' "[Dictionary of slang of the army,
navy, and marines in World Wars I and II]"; Natalie Schretter's
"I remember Clarence Darrow"; George H. Shoaf's "Fighting for
freedom"; Anna Marcet and Emanuel Haldeman-Julius' "Violence";
"The singing flower" and "The pool" in the hand of Mrs. Anna
Marcet Haldeman-Julius; and anonymous typewritten mss. entitled
"The bomb is planted," The mistress of the many windows," "The
art of preserving one's manhood," "Catepillar and butterfly,"
"The sage," and "Shadows."

The collection contains a few photographs of members of the
family and friends, and of the Haldeman-Julius company's
building, workrooms, and employees.

Printed material in the collection consists principally of
newspaper clippings, etc. relating to banking, and theater
programs and newspaper clippings relating to the theater,
particularly to Jean Marcet's performances.

Some of the material in this collection is in a folio
folder.

Collection size: 5,466 items

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